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Northern Junket, Vol. 1, No. 6 rr 5? | £4. «4ib <t.r5?!S3FA4, V-i-1 V..< 43 7 ^ — /<r V i V4 ' >\ > ••-•v /?.' / \ / / «*r i-*i ^ TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT r^the other day. "Why do 1 you go to folk dance camp?" Nov; there ±3 a pood question.Speaking . only for myself here are some of the reasons. \ J """ Most important of all r- are the friendships ac- X.) quiredquir . You never really U j. knoknoww a person until you -S havhav.e c \nced,sunr, and •jHvi,o»«.,v.'orlc0(i together at a pjlhi:;—-i—l£olk dance carap. The .nner self come3 out and is subjected to full view of the whole camp. Under such conditions it doesn't take long to find out what a por3on is really like. Camp friendship3 lasting friendships. re is a wealth of information to be -oc. Hot only about dances,but other allied subjects-folk songs,lore,costumes and cooking. -"here comes a time when every camper realises how LITTLE he laiow3 about even a simple dance; sue": i.s proper stylo and form. They are what keep3 •-•very dance from looking alike. It is true that we may never do a. dance ex- actly as a native would do it. But we can try. An;. the trying will come a better understand ing of our fellow men. Sincerely (A aJLji'ti U ^ MAINE FOLK DA" ICS GAMP n > It is a difficult task to write in glowing terms about the Sap ten- Folk Dance Camp in Ilea no without running afoul of the sceptics and the over critical,who are / only too glad of the chance to point a scorn- ful finger and yowl "Yah-h-hl You said the same about the spring canrp." Over emphasis defeats its ov/n purpose,so we'll try to keep the adjec- tives at a minimum. Let's lock at the camp thru a leader's eye, .It is not necessary to have mobs of people to have a successful camp. The saturation point is reached at about one hundred as far as get- ting personal help from the leaders is concerned, We arrived at Sunset Inn,on Kesar Lake,the second night of camp;had a hurried snack of Mrs. Maxwell' s superlative cooking;grabbed an armful of records and walked up the grade to the dance hall to find the regular evening party just get tin-": under way. From then until the following Monday morning the grounds and surroundings wore echoing to the happy voices and dancing feet of folk dance lovers who came from Richmond,Virgin- ia, Mapleton,Maine,and many places between. The first section was made up of thirty five campers.Twenty five were leaders of dance groups, school teachers,or extension workers. The others were there because they liked tc dance. Believe me,they all got a lot of help from the four lead -ers. In fact, the campers were y so attention,and paid so much attention to all details that they gave a very creditable perfor mance of the Beseda,the last day of camp. Not a polished performance you understand-not in that short space of time-but they got enough of it to see what a gorgeous dance it might be. Don't got the idea that because we stumbled through the Beseda that we did only complex and difficult dances. No indeed. Aside from that one dance all the others were quite easy. A ~reat deal of time was spent in teaching good form and the proper style of every dance. We quickly discovered that there was a great deal to learn about every dance,no matter how simple the fig- ures might be. There is a great joy in doing a simple danca correctly. Breakfast was from 8 to 9 every morning,and no one over slept:the early risers saw to that. Then dancing until noon with the time evenly di- vi od between American squares and contras and International dances. Dinner was at 12:30 with a different nationality neal each day. I.iore dan- cing from 2 to 4. Then afternoon coffee and a light snack followed by a discussion period. Supper was at 6:30,another nationality meal. A party every night 3 to 11,during which we were joined by many of the townspeople. Everyone at the parties was invited to join the campers in a late cup of coffee and a bite to eat in the lounge,followed by folk singing that lasted as long as anyone wanted to sing. The nationality meals,prepared under the cap able eye of Llrs.IIaxwell of West Virginia,were something to rrav e about the reat of ^ your life. We'v e said this before, C^lczC- buuuto ixut wilwxjllx bbeae r repeating:you've never really oaten until you have ~7 X) eaten a meal at a folk dance camp CsS/v managed by Jane Parwell and cooked by Mrs. Maxwell. How they do it for the price charged is beyond all human understanding. The only meal that I did not particularly care for was the supper of Indian Eight Boy Curry.And it was all my own fault,too. For some good reason supper time was advanced a half hour and at 6 o'clock when the supper bell rang,I was in the middle of a shower. As if that were not enough right in the middle of the meal there came a long distance 'phone call from New Haven, Conn, and by the time that was ended the Indian Eight Boy Curry was a cold insipid meal. We al- ways learn the hard way,it seems,and never again did I take meal-time for granted. Mr.and Mrs. Jack Wilson of Richmond,Virginia,were on this particular supper committee,and Jack was a most impressive Indian,all six foot eight of him. Michael Herman preserved hi3 standing at the head of every chow line. A veteran of many folk danco camps,Michael knew to the split second when the dinner bell would ring. Apparently ab- sorbed in listening to a group chatting about a new dance just learned,he would nonchalantly stroll away toward tho dining hall just as the bell rang. It was psychic,nothing less. There was more than enough to eat at every meal too,and a good thing there was,for there were some able tronchermen at camp. Notably Dick Castncr,Davo Ashman,and "Obie" O'brion. I'd like my accordionist,Bob McQuiUcn,there sometime. What a good time that quartet would have eating together. _ rv The dining room underwent 1 s- ^ C 5 MN , V a complete change of motif for each nationality meal. A striking example .was the ( ( Smorgasbord supper,Sunday V -v'lV-- ni gh t. Ano ther, d e 3 ervIng special Mention was tho How England fari.i scene,com plate,ovon to smoke lazing up from th„ clilmnoy. ;.nd bo fore leaving tho subject of ea: uiuch praise should bo given Bill Holt of Fori for Lis Italian street HoW I fol£ i-wwvnnnnf s inr.Q r r o lo. Thru - aftor five out t is a, ho successive Iiu char ic hka kolos. strolled about vi- the dini ng roo: sing in,fj a s org for cash table. Tho fact that every ''Ital ian" tune was up on the spur • tho mcment added more to the s cone than othor Vt. * _i_O •w' • "j-ii " O .•ntly,yo . u lov or3 of folk son Jo ViJ.. lot more of Dili Holt before .-ao; go o; u protege of diehard Dyor-3onnott. is sure to r :iie top as, a ioj.,; : —i-. r. Tho second V. Cw tb ii. c apa c i ty c amp-75. his included ton or twelve "haegovur s " from tlw first scction.About tho same proportion of toachor3 and dancers too.Tho folks staying over from tho first section,volunteered themselves as a committee to completely change tho over-all decorations of the main dining room.It's about time to say that the main theme of this Septem- ber camp \.as Swiss Alpine. It had rained cats,dogs,and large cannon balls the night before,and during the early morning too,but it lot up in the middle of the forenoon and we wore able to scour the woods in search of autumn leaves and greenery for tho overhead decorations. Sura,wo got wot, but what of it? Wo kept moving and you don't catch coif", if you do that. And wo probably looked like drowned rata to the early arrivals of the second section. Only two of them saw us at our worst :JIerb Warren of Fairleo,Vt.and Charlotte Blaine of Jaffrey, N.tf. and they wore both old friends. Michael recorded for posterity some of working moments. Right in the middle of it all,3cmeone put on a kolo record and for two or throe minutes work was forgotten. This is beginning to sound like a work camp or kitchen detail. The dance hit of the camp without question was the Kucharicliko kolo (and I hope I've spoiled it right)Svcn before wo had learned the dancc,its insistent and compelling rhythm was so fascinating that the record wa3 played over and over again. After learning it, we danced it at the slightest provocation or without any. There wore sovoral records of it at camp and it got so that it v/as a disappoint- ment not to dance it a couple of times after each meal.
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